Kurdish journalist and activist Zhina Modares Gorji co-founded the Zhivano Women’s Association in 2019, which uses education and protest to fight violence against women.
Arrested twice since the start of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement, Modares Gorji was initially sentenced to 21 years in prison on charges including “propaganda against the regime." She is currently serving a reduced sentence of two years and four months.
Modares Gorji was a member of the One Million Signatures campaign to gather public support for legislation reform in Iran, addressing laws that discriminated against women.
She is behind a Kurdish women’s photography group, a women’s podcast and a children’s book featuring inspiring Kurdish women.
